Premium
Intelligence as a predictor of social mobility in Estonia
Author(s) -
Anni Kätlin,
Mõttus René
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/sjop.12528
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , psychology , occupational prestige , educational attainment , cognition , status attainment , association (psychology) , developmental psychology , occupational mobility , social status , social mobility , demography , demographic economics , sociology , political science , population , social science , psychiatry , economics , law , psychotherapist
The purpose of this study was to explore how individual and environmental predictors of intergenerational social mobility intersect in rarely studied post‐communist developing society of Estonia. We used a contemporary cross‐sectional dataset (n = 759) to assess the influence of cognitive ability and parental socioeconomic status to the participants’ educational and occupational attainment. Our results indicated that cognitive ability and one's own educational level mediated the association of parental socioeconomic status with one's own occupational success. Analysis of separate components of cognitive ability indicated that verbal ability had the highest influence on occupational status. We concluded that both individual‐level and environmental factors have a predictive effect on educational and occupational attainment.